He used all his concentration to resist the strange sensations rising from his bones and blood.

A mix of soreness, numbness, itchiness, and pain surged through him all at once.

Enduring these sensations already consumed all his focus, leaving him no ability to observe his own changes carefully.

He only felt his heartbeat growing faster and faster.

Even though he was sitting cross-legged, he could clearly hear his own heartbeat as well as the distant massive heartbeat of the Hell Flame Beast.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

Slow, long, and steady beats.

Suddenly, Xiao Shou felt his own rapidly beating heart pause.

It felt like a very long time had passed, yet also like only an instant.

His heart began to beat again.

But this time, it was much slower.

Gradually, it began to align with the rhythm of the Hell Flame Beast’s heart, beating in perfect synchronization.

A stream of information merged from his blood and into his mind.

At the same time, his cultivation at the peak of the ninth cycle began to surge explosively.

Fu Young who’s multitasking continued purifying the blood beasts inside the restriction while focusing intently on Xiao Shou.

He personally saw him fall into the blood essence, letting it surround him before landing and sitting on the ground.

The dense blood-colored spiritual energy around him began to flow back, all of it rushing into his body.

Until the spiritual energy returned to its original color as ninth cycle cultivation.

Time passed quickly.

More than an hour later.

His aura suddenly changed.

The blood color on his exposed face and skin faded completely, becoming pale and smooth.

His fox like eyes grew longer, more curled, and darker in color.

His long black hair suddenly broke free from the jade hairpin that bound it, carrying a strange spiritual aura as it floated into the air.

It grew rapidly to about three meters long.

An unusual spiritual energy lingered around his hair without dissipating.

At that moment, a massive shadow of a ten-tailed black fox flashed briefly behind him before vanishing.

So this is what Master looks like after his bloodline divine ability awakens?

It seems to be a power related to hair.

Just as Fu Young was focusing intently on the long hair that was surrounded by strange spiritual energy, a blue figure suddenly appeared out of nowhere and rushed toward Xiao Shou who was still in the process of awakening.

At the same time, a pure white beam of spiritual light shot out from her arm.

"Xiao Shou, you are truly careless. You are breaking through without setting up any defensive formation. Do you think you are safe just because someone you trust is here? If you had set up a formation, I would not have been able to get you so easily. Fate Devouring Array!"

"You fool."

Just as the white beam was about to strike Xiao Shou, a voice suddenly rang out.

At the same moment, a huge red vortex appeared around the blue figure and the white spiritual light she had released. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

It produced an overwhelming suction force.

So fast that not even the blink of an eye was needed, the white beam was swallowed entirely.

At the same time, the blue figure began to tremble as if she was about to be dragged in as well.

The blue robed figure is Xiao Ran and she felt the terrifying aura coming from the red vortex.

It was like the presence of an ancient primordial beast, utterly horrifying.

She immediately used all her methods without hesitation.

After paying a heavy price, she barely managed to break free from the red vortex and quickly retreated to a position far away from Xiao Shou and Fu Young.

When she looked up again, she was shocked.

Fu Young was standing at the edge of the restriction, smiling brightly.

A vertical blood-colored eye had been opened on his forehead.

The blue patterns surrounded the blood eye forming the shape of a strange vertical eye.

All three eyes were now staring directly at her.

He spoke again, repeating with a grin.

"Such a fool. That one over there seems a little smarter than you."

"You monster."

Xiao Ran’s face immediately flushed with anger.

Having been insulted like this for the first time since her previous life, except for Yu Lin at the moment of her death, she had never been so humiliated.

Her expression shifted from cold indifference to furious beauty in an instant.

Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly realized what he had said. "What do you mean?"

Fu Young ignored her completely.

His gaze shifted past her toward a position in midair opposite Xiao Ran.

While still smiling brightly, he said, "Not coming out? I do not mind. You are hiding so carefully, so I will properly entertain you. Since you did not attack my most important Master, I will give you a quick death."

After speaking, the red vertical eye on his forehead lit up.

Instantly, a huge red vortex appeared in the direction of his gaze.

At the same time as the blood red vortex formed countless mysterious runes flickered through the same space.

Yu Lin who is dressed in the Heavenly Void Sect disciple robe suddenly rushed out and quickly moved to a position far away from Fu Young.

With a confused and hurt expression, she said, "Fellow Daoist, I have not offended you or little brother shou, right? I was only borrowing this place to hide. Why do you have to kill me without leaving any way out?"

Xiao Ran looked at Yu Lin who had suddenly appeared in shock and then stared at Fu Young in disbelief. "She was not teleported out either? You already knew?"

"My spiritual root is a bit special. I can sense that among the teleportation jade talismans, two of the spatial auras were abnormal. To be honest, I did not notice your tricks at first, but during the battle, every time my spiritual energy passed those two positions, I felt something unnatural. Then I figured it out," Fu Young said calmly.